Over the next few weeks, Microsoft will roll out a brand new three-column version of Bing that incorporates a social sidebar filled with related info from your social networks and a new center column with supplemental information related to your search.

The new design follows a recent Bing makeover, where the search engine got a more streamlined Google-like look and moved the left related searches sidebar over to the right—no doubt in preparation for this major update.

Here's what you'll find in the new Bing:

Core Web Results: Your normal Bing search results will stay where they are, in the large left column. Bing emphasizes that "Instead of cluttering your results with social updates, we're honoring the purity of the core web results making it easier to focus on the links you need to get things done." Obviously, this is a jab at Google's integrated social results.

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Snapshots: The center column adds details about services and other info related to your search, such as maps and reviews.

Sidebar: The right column is dedicated to social results. You'll be able to ask Facebook friends as you search and see information from "top experts" from Twitter, LinkedIn, Quora, and more. Oh, and Google+ results, too, which makes this a considerably more earnest effort at "adding social" to search results than Google's crappy Search Plus Your World. Even better: You can collapse this social sidebar at any time, and it will stay hidden until you choose to see it again.